By PAMELA FAYERMAN
If you’ve been seriously affected by long waits for care in the emergency department at Surrey Memorial Hospital, we want to hear from you. Ditto if you know someone who’s been harmed by the Code Blue controversy.
It’s been open only six weeks, and although it’s five times bigger than its replacement, the new ER is already too congested.
This is unfortunate, but predictable because of the “build it and they shall ... Read More …

By Pamela Fayerman
Patients have long been given daily, routine chest X-rays in hospital intensive care units around the developed world, for no good medical reasons. Just because of decades of habit.
But recent studies have shown they are a waste of time and resources, not to mention being potentially hazardous because of the repeated radiation.
Such X-rays don’t detect more problems, don’t alter mortality rates, the length of stay in ICU, or the ... Read More …